{"id":10410,"date":"2011-07-21T08:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10410"},"modified":"2011-07-21T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:28:51","slug":"man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-beating-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-beating-death","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Beating Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Abaco man convicted of manslaughter last week in the fatal beating of Adam Evans has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Delancy, 28, was convicted on July 13 of the lesser charge of manslaughter following a murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors alleged that Delancy and others brutally beat Evans at Spring City, Abaco, on July 19, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Five other men had initially stood trial along with Delancy, but  prosecutors dropped the case against them before they closed their case.<\/p>\n<p>A prosecution witness testified that he saw Delancy chasing Evans on the morning in question.\u00a0 Only in the Bahamas, land of injustice, is consciously chasing someone down in order to beat them to death considered\u00a0 mansalughter and not premeditated murder.<\/p>\n<p>Before Senior Justice Jon Isaacs passed sentence yesterday, Delancy\u2019s  lawyer V. Alfred Gray said he could say little in mitigation because  his client maintained his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Of course he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moral of this story is that one is better off killing someone in the Bahamas, rather than beating them.  Murderers get off scot-free, beating someone lands you in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,32,31,49],"class_list":["post-10410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}